The horrific face-eating arrest in Miami and several other seemingly subhuman acts has many people wondering what’s behind this flesh-munching wave of terror.

A zombie apocalypse, however, is not what we should be worried about, at least according to the federal government.

Over the years the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a couple of tongue-in-cheek “zombie warnings,” which really are just disaster-preparedness stunts. But on Thursday, the agency made it official: Zombies don’t exist.

“CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms),” wrote agency spokesman David Daigle in an email to The Huffington Post.

Nevertheless, recent incidents in which humans reportedly ate human flesh have the Internet in a firestorm, with “zombie apocalypse” being Google’s third most popular search term by Friday morning.

Tip: Fark.com

Well of course not. Zombies are a hot topic though considering the popularity of them on TV and in films, especially recently. But is this a case of an increase in such incidents or the reporting of them? It’s unclear.

I gues we shouldn’t be suprised that some people believe that this could happen. Of course, it isn’t helped by the propular fiction inspired ” the gov’t is covering it up to keep us from panicking” line.

luvmyGod4eva

June 2, 2012 at 2:37 PM

One word….REVELATION…..? (Or maybe that new drug “bath salts” making people crazy….you decide!)

Massachusetts

June 2, 2012 at 6:31 PM

Probably not a Zombie Apocalypse, but perhaps a Zombie-ish Apocalypse:

Darn it, Mass- you played the Cracked Card! 🙂 Side note: it is an intresting article.

Massachusetts

June 2, 2012 at 8:31 PM

Thanks. Definitely good science fiction if nothing else. I don’t foresee dead corpses ever rising to devour ous, but the brain-damaged / psycho angle is a remote possibility (we actually did have that exemplified in the article, for one person, didn’t we?)

Sean Elliott

June 3, 2012 at 11:45 PM

I tend to think a zombie apocalypse would be pretty easy to deal with. How many dead bodies do we have in one place at any given time that would be functional? I am guessing that most would be badly decayed, if not useless. I imagine the entire zombie uprising would be a pathetic affair.

Kilgore Trout

June 5, 2012 at 2:04 PM

Insurance plans will not cover zombies or lycanthropes (clearly a case of ddiscrimination); but vampires may be elligible for some dental plans.

Massachusetts

June 10, 2012 at 1:52 PM

There is a real lycnanthropy though. It’s a psychiatric condition: the afflicted person believes he’s a werewolf and acts like it, but without the physical transformation of the legendary condition: